11-B 15.12 Use of English (Test 1)

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.  

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else. It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps. Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.